Progress

"Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress."  - Mahatma Gandhi -

Reclaim

"Wherever you are today, reclaim your power in it.  Make your situation better by repairing broken relationships, building more respect, finding your voice, growing your skills, and becoming more competent."  - Kathy Caprino -

Teacher

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."  - Albert Einstein -

Ribbon

"A soldier will give you his life for a bit of colored ribbon."  - Napoleon -

Small things

"You've got to think about the big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction."  - Alvin Toffler -

World

"The swan, like the soul of the poet,

By the dull world is ill understood."  - Heinrich Heine -

Let it go

"To live in this world

You must be able

To do three things:

To love what is mortal;

To hold it

Against your bones knowing

Your own life depends on it;

And, when the time comes to let it go,

To let it go."  - Mary Oliver -

Bell

"I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck."  - Annie Dillard -

Yourself

"To find yourself, think for yourself."  - Socrates -

Stay

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."  - Albert Einstein -

Movement

"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."  - Blaise Pascal -

Become

 "You will become like the five people you associate with the most - this can be either a blessing or a curse." - Billy Cox -

Computer

"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage."  - Robert S. McNamara -

Small

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."  - Churchill -

Humble

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble."  - Helen Keller -

Never

"Resolved, never to do anything which I would be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life."  - Jonathan Edwards -

Calm

"Never did sun more beautifully steep

In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;

Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!

The river glideth at his own sweet will:

Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;

And all that mighty heart is lying still!."  - William Wordsworth -

Knowledge

"Be curious always!  For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it."  - Sudie Back -

Now

"I want it now, Daddy"

Patience

"A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap!"  - Abraham Lincoln -